incomprehensibility

Examples

• All

• Aquinas begins his treatment of God's incomprehensibility with the counter-intuitive idea that God can be known.

  Academic text (2007)

• There is an irreducible element of incomprehensibility in the universe.

  Academic text (1996)

• Nobody should mind incomprehensibility as long as incomprehensibility is not the aim.

  Academic text (2010)

• All the religions have found it possible to talk of this residuum of incomprehensibility only in metaphors and stories.

  Academic text (1996)

• The newscasters' chatter about it, as it was happening, is a document of human incomprehensibility.

  Blog text (21)

• But what really motivated them was an even stronger conviction about the infinity and incomprehensibility of God's goodness and mercy, revealed.

  Academic text (1993)

• Each of these is introduced by the clause "it is true that," which only accentuates their ultimate incomprehensibility (3).

  Academic text (2016)

• Then the final opposition, that of good and evil, will be overcome, and the image of God will lose its fearsome aspect of incomprehensibility precisely in the process through which the self comes to integration.

  Academic text (1993)

• While plays may sometimes be produced in local languages other than English, these translations often create their own incomprehensibilities, not so much linguistically as culturally.

  Academic text (1996)

• Many people struggle with the incomprehensibility of advanced mathematical concepts.

Synonyms

I

incoherence

vsincomprehensibility

5 7.3

Speech or writing that is unclear and hard to follow

is the broader concept of hard understanding not only from poor organization

I

inscrutability

vsincomprehensibility

1 9.9

A quality that you cannot understand or know the reasons for

is broader allowing things that are only very hard rather than utterly impossible

U

unknowability

vsincomprehensibility

1 9.9

A quality that makes facts and events impossible to find out or fully understand

focuses on difficulty of understanding not on limits of factual knowledge

U

unintelligibility

vsincomprehensibility

1 9.9

Something that is very hard to understand

is the same idea and applies in the same situations

I

indecipherability

vsincomprehensibility

1 9.9

A difficulty understanding handwriting, signs, or codes

covers general inability to understand not only failure to read or decode

I

inexplicability

vsincomprehensibility

1 9.8

A state when something cannot be explained or understood

points to hard understanding but not necessarily failure to provide any explanation

I

inconceivability

vsincomprehensibility

1 9.9

The state of being impossible to imagine or believe

means hard to understand but allows cases people might still imagine or accept

I

impenetrability

vsincomprehensibility

9.9

Very hard to understand because the ideas are unclear or complicated

focuses on difficulty itself rather than specifying a complex or obscure cause

I

impalpability

vsincomprehensibility

9.9

You cannot easily understand or picture it in your mind

covers inability to understand more generally beyond just mental grasp

A

abstrusity

vsincomprehensibility

• Formal

9.9

The quality of being very difficult to understand because it is complex

notes general difficulty but not always the exceptional depth or complexity

I

inconceivableness

vsincomprehensibility

9.9

Being impossible to imagine or understand

is the same basic sense and differs only in wording or form

U

unclarity

vsincomprehensibility

7.7

Information or speech that is hard to understand and causes confusion

indicates more severe inability to understand not just mild unclear phrasing

U

unreadability

vsincomprehensibility

7.7

Writing that is hard to understand or enjoy

focuses on difficulty to understand even beyond poor style or unpleasantness

Antonyms

C

comprehensibility

1 4.2

How easy something is for people to understand

How Understandable

clarity

152 3.0

comprehensibility

1 4.2

obscurity

5 7.4

incomprehensibility

1 9.9

inscrutability

1 9.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology